BOOST ENGLISH FLUENCY | Learn 10 COOL Ways to Say You're Hungry! 🍽️ | English Conversation Skills

hi there this is Harry and welcome back to Advanced English lessons with Harry where I tried to help you to get a better understanding of the English language if you're preparing for a proficiency exam or for a job interview or indeed if you just want to improve your basic conversational skills while you've come to the right place we will help you with grammar pronunciation use of English use of phrasal verbs other idiomatic expressions everything that you could possibly need to improve your Eng

lish to feel that you're speaking natural English to feel that you can fit in so you don't embarrass yourself or feel that you might embarrass yourself or feel shy in trying to use the English you know the drill by now if you need some additional help some additional words or Expressions you just write to me and I'll be very happy to help you okay so this is an advanced English lesson and we're looking at ways to describe hunger now we're going to look at it in a few different ways we're going t

o look at it in terms of when when you're little bit hungry so a little bit more polite when you're very hungry so you got a bit of an appetite or when you're very very hungry so you're really starving so different words can describe different levels of hunger that you feel and we've all been in those situations you know we we just want something quick we just want something filling or we want as much food as we can possibly get because we feel as if we haven't eaten for days so all these words

advanced expressions and ways to describe hunger so I've got 10 in total let me go through them with you first one very British this one and it it means when you're you've got you're a little hungry so you're not you're not starving okay you're a little hungry say I'm peckish okay so some might say would you like something to eat I'm a little peckish I I don't want much just something small but I'm a little bit peckish a peck is like what a a hen or a bird does they Peck Peck Peck Peck at the fo

od or the Wood Pecker yeah the name of the wood pecker peck PE peck so when you're feeling a little peckish it's not a big big meal that you want it's just a little meal to help you get over until you have your full dinner or lunch whatever it is that you you're going to eat so I am peckish or I'm a little peckish or a nibble yeah I could have a nibble now a nibble again is something very small if you pick up a biscuit and you you bite little pieces from it you nibble on the the biscuit or if yo

u see a squirrel or a mouse they nibble at the food they don't take big big chunks that's just the way they are so they nibble so if you said yeah I could have a nibble it means I could have something small not something huge some something quite small but yeah it would be appetizing and enjoyable but not something big we used to have a a game with biscuits when we used to hold the biscuit and eat the outside of the biscuit and then move your way in rather than taking big bites of the biscuit an

d little nibbles how many nibbles could you get okay so first one I'm peckish the second one I could have a nibble okay and the third one yeah I fancy a bite to eat and again it's a way of saying that politely that you'd like something to eat but not a big big meal yeah so would what do you want to do do you want to go for a coffee or do you fancy a bite to eat yeah I fancy a bite to eat a cup of coffee and a sandwich or cup of coffee and a biscuit or a cup of coffee and a snack is another way o

f explaining it then these are polite ways of saying that you are yeah a little hungry but not really really hungry okay now if we are feeling very hungry then we might say I'm starving okay now the definition of starvation is a lot worse than that somebody who has hasn't eaten for three or four or five days then they can be literally suffering from starvation but when we say I'm starving it usually means that we've been doing some exercise perhaps a workout in the gym or we've been working hard

all day we skipped our lunch so when we get home in the evening you know our partner says you know would you like something to eat oh yeah I'm starving I haven't eaten all day and that sounds as if you're about to die but of course you're not but it's just the way you feel I'm starving another way of saying I'm starving is rhyming slang now if you don't understand the British English so well rhyming slang come from a particular area of London the real londoners the East londoners are called coc

ky and they have a certain language that they use called rhyming slang where words rhyme together and they have a very different meaning so for example if they want to go up the stairs they refer to the apple and pears and it rhymes with stairs I'm just going to go up the apple and pears means I'm going to go up the stairs there so when they're talking about being starving they or starving as we'd like to pronounce it starving they say I'm Hank Marvin Hank Marvin now Hank Marvin for those of you

who are not at my age he used to be with a group called the shadows and the Shadows were a very famous group English group who used to back Cliff Richard and Cliff Richard is still alive now I think he's in his 80s but he was a real one of the first British pop stars of the 19 50s 60s 7s 80s he had so many many hit records and the backing group that he had were called the Shadows so lots of his earlier records were Cliff Richard and the shadows and one of the members of the group The Shadows wa

s this guy called Hank Marvin so people from London now use this and that's and have used it for many decades as part of their rhyming slang I'm Hank Marvin means I'm starving I really would like something to eat okay um I'm not even sure if Hank Marvin is still alive today hopefully he is but if you feel like a blast of the past go on to the internet and download some music from the Shadows they've got some real cult music that um you'll recognize from that era some really classic guitar work a

nd Hank Marvin was a guitarist and really really good guitarist and then if you listen to some of the records of Cliff rich and the Shadows you'll understand who I'm talking about okay so to be Hank Marvin starving okay but Hank Marin is his name Starvin but we should pronounce it correctly starving and as always if you like this particular lesson then please please like the video and if you can subscribe to the channel because it does it really really helps number six if we're really really hun

gry somebody could say oh yeah I'm really hungry I could eat a horse so hopefully they won't eat the horse but it means they've got a really big appetite and they've you know maybe been training hard in the gym playing a football match or Rie match whatever they're really hungry so yeah I could eat a horse or very simply I'm famished so when somebody is famished they're very very hungry I'm famished I don't think I've eaten since breakfast this morning I'm famished and if it's cold day we he a n

ice bowl of hot soup followed by something else would just hit the exact spot I'm famished I'm starving another degree above being famished and above being starving is I'm ravenous yeah so that really explains how hungry you are yeah oh the kids they were ravenous when they came home from their couple of days away from home they went on a school trip I don't know what they were doing I don't think they got fed properly but when they came home they emptied the fridge and in minutes they were rave

nous so to be ravenous means really really hungry yeah ravenous or if your stomach starts to rumble or growl as we call it you say oh yeah my stomach has been rumbling for hours I could really do with a good meal rumbling or growling for hours yeah so the rumbling of the stomach or the growling of the stomach seems to suggest that my stomach is empty and I really need to to fill it so a nice bowl of hot soup or a big plate of potatoes and other vegetabl it's just what I want so to to stop my sto

mach rumbling or to stop my stomach from growling in the Irish English Expressions we hear this phrase my stomach thinks my throat has been cut so it sounds very gruesome yeah but it gives you the impression that your stomach has been empty for a long time and you haven't eaten and my stomach thinks that my throat has been cut so as I said a little bit uh gruesome but you get the picture and then the last one number 10 I'm dying for something to eat I'm dying for a burger I've been thinking abou

t a burger and chips all day so you've got yourself into that particular mood that you're working hard and you say oh I know I'm going to have when I go home I'm going to have a burger and chips a big double burger or a Big Mac and plenty of French fries and ketchup on the side whatever so I'm dying for a burger and chips or if you haven't eaten a particular meal for a while doesn't necessarily mean you haven't eaten at all but you haven't eaten your favorite meal for a while oh I'm dying for a

pizza yeah I've been on a diet for several weeks and I've been trying to stay off some of the fast food so I'm dying for a pizza I'm dying for a burger I'm dying for a bowl of spaghetti what whatever it might mean dying for means I really really can't wait I really want that type of food so I'm very very hungry or you know for that particular item okay so there are 10 different ways to say that I'm hungry some refer to a little bit hungry as we said I'm peckish some to being very hungry like I'm

starving and then those that mean I'm really really hungry like I am ravenous okay so let let me give them to you one more time quickly number one I'm peckish very British English I'm peckish a little hungry I could have a nibble or I could have a snack I fancy a bite to eat something not so big a bite to eat I'm starving I'm starving I haven't eaten all day I'm Hank Marvin as I said this rhyming Cockney slang I'm Hank Marvin I could eat a horse I could eat a horse hopefully not I could eat a h

orse of course there are many countries in the world where horse meat is really acceptable yeah and that's and that's what they they grow I could eat a horse I'm famished absolutely famished I'm ravenous oh I'm so hungry I'm ravenous my stomach is growling my stomach is rumbling and then finally I'm dying for dying for that burger and chips okay so 10 individual ways in which you can say I'm hungry so practice some of those practice them with your friends see do they have feel the same way liste

n out for what they say when they are talking about what they're going to eat and you might pick up on some of these expressions and if you need some additional help then please write to me www.english lonv skype.com and I'm really happy to help you with some additional expressions and add additional phrases the best way for you to understand them the best way for you to remember remember them is to write them down try to use your own words situations and that really really will help you okay so

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